History of the Americas

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, providing every American with the opportu...

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, providing every American with the opportu...

Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family his...

After Mexicos revolution of 19101920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the countrys diverse populace. Their efforts r...

The contributions gathered in this volume revisit the two centuries that have elapsed since Central America's independence in 1821. This highly co...

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chr...

Revised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana...

This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, t...

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedoms swift-winged angels. In 1813 those a...

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexic...

The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew t...

This volume emerged from an international research colloquium jointly organised by National Museums Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora S...

The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Domi...

In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities...